Watch live as pop star Katy Perry joins Blue Origin's all-female celebrity crew launching into space, on board the New Shepard vessel.The 11-minute mission will see the crew launched into space - featuring journalists Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, who is also billionaire Jeff Bezos' fiancée. The mission marks the first all-female flight crew in more than six decades.WATCH ABOVE.
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00:005, 4, command engine start, 2, 1, ignition.
00:14Liftoff.
00:16New Shepard has cleared the tower.
00:306,000 feet climbing.
00:50Begin throttle down for Q limiting.
00:54Engine response looks good.
01:00We are one minute into the flight now.
01:08Everything has been smooth this far.
01:12The systems are looking normal.
01:14And there we can see, getting smaller and smaller,
01:17that crew of six flying up to over 100 kilometers in the air,
01:23beyond what's known as the internationally recognized Karman line,
01:26that edge of space where nothing but a rocket ship can reach.
01:32Well, still with us is Andy Lound, the space expert,
01:35who's been watching what has been an incredibly smooth launch so far, Andy.
01:41From the nozzle end of it, you saw how clean that burn is.
01:44That's what you get when you burn hydrogen and oxygen together,
01:47and you just get water droplets coming out of that.
01:49So that's really, really nice.
01:50So it's a really clean launch.
01:53Very nice flight plan, which seems to be going there.
01:55It seems to be going perfectly down the line, along the arrow.
01:58So it should be heading up.
02:00The separation will be around, I know,
02:02less than a minute before separation of the two items now,
02:05the main booster from the capsule itself.
02:07It's a tech spot launch, that is, into a clear blue sky,
02:11which is exactly what you need to do.
02:13So the astronauts must be feeling absolutely fantastic,
02:16although not technically astronauts until they beat that Karman line.
02:19But they...